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SANS AI Cybersecurity Summit: Building Your Own Chatbot
Kate Marshall
Kate Marshall is a fractional Chief AI Officer who partners with organizations to implement AI safely and strategically. She focuses on governance, workforce readiness, and real-world adoption, not hype.
Kate is a SHRM AI+HI Instructor and works with executives, HR leaders, and non-technical teams to turn AI from an experiment into an operational advantage.
She spent 18 years at the SANS Institute, leading Summits and creating rapid-response training for emerging cybersecurity threats. Kate launched SANS' first AI Task Force and the first AI Hackathon.
What Kate Speaks About
AI Adoption and Strategy
- How non-technical leaders can implement AI without getting lost in the hype
- Staged AI adoption frameworks for small businesses and enterprise teams
- Building an AI-ready culture before the tools arrive
AI Governance and Risk
- Governance-first AI implementation
- Shadow AI: what it is, why it matters, and how to manage it
- AI Acceptable Use Policies that people actually follow
- Prompt injection and emerging AI security threats
AI in the Workplace
- AI for HR leaders: practical applications with responsible guardrails
- How to evaluate and approve AI tools for your team
- AI amplified social engineering and what employees need to know
Becoming AI Agent-Ready
- What AI agents actually are and why your team needs to prepare now
- Building reusable AI skills: how to document your processes so agents can execute them
- Accountability in agentic systems: who is responsible when AI acts autonomously
- The three things every organization needs before deploying AI agents
Cybersecurity Meets AI
- AI-amplified threats: social engineering, phishing, and deception at scale
- Wearables and pervasive data capture: the privacy risks your team isn't thinking about
- Security awareness training for the AI era
Leadership and Executive Decision-Making
- How to brief your board or leadership team on AI risk and opportunity
- Making AI decisions in the gray areas (not everything is black and white)
Personal Brand and Thought Leadership
- Building a visible expert practice as a non-technical professional
- Content creation and distribution systems using AI tools
Build Your Digital Twin
- This workshop shows leaders how to capture their expertise and build a personal AI model trained on their voice, frameworks, and thinking.
- The result: a digital version of you that handles repetitive questions, scales your thinking across your organization, and protects your time.
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